Becker's Healthcare December 30, 2022
The Leapfrog Group has proposed several updates its 2023 hospital survey to ensure it aligns with current science and addresses the needs of consumers and purchasers.
A new section on managing serious errors is proposed. Another voluntary question seeks to assess basic information on environmental services and facilities engineering.
The survey will also include questions related to health equity, focusing on how hospitals organize data relating to ethnicity, race, language, gender identification and sexual orientation. These questions are required to be answered in the 2023 survey but will not be scored or reported in 2023.
The online survey tool is being changed to streamline the process, according to a Leapfrog report. Some sections of the survey...